Retraction Podcast

The Walt Disney Animation Studio movie Strange World represents generational relationships and also has a gay character. Movies are taking strides to better represent American society and include gay characters with romance that’s central to the story similar to war in an action movie. Florida Governor Ron “Don’t Say Gay” DeSantis has given parents opposed to LGBT rights a path to censor movies, s...

Plastic pollution in our food enters the body and might be entering our brains within two hours. Microplastics can cause inflammation in the body, but once they that pass the blood-brain barrier a number of mental health issues can develop like neurological disorders and neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease. Will Americans choose gun violence or gun cont...

Did a Walgreens’ employee in Nashville, Tennessee call the police in response to shoplifting? No, they followed two women to their car and resorted to shooting them – one was seven months pregnant. This is the type of police activity we should be seeing - responding to crimes being committed. If individuals are allowed to dole out justice on the streets, what’s the point of US state and federal co...

Don’t mess with Mickey Mouse. Florida man Ron DeSantis is learning that a fight with Walt Disney World might not be politics as usual. Is Elon Musk trying to diminish the brand equity of Twitter, so you won’t miss it when he replaces Twitter with X, the everything app? The majority of American can now carry guns without a permit. The police aren’t onboard, because it puts all types of police activ...

Billionaire Elon Musk has had a strange string of behaviors recently: - Changed the sign on his building to say Titter instead of Twitter - Changed his name on Twitter to something more obscene - Replaced Twitter’s logo with that dogecoin dog - Banned Substack posts - Labeled NPR as state-run media on Twitter, And, if free speech is the aim, why not give everyone access to free verification (blue...

Fox News is the leading propaganda outlet for the GOP, so it shoulders much of the blame for Republican absurdity that will undoubtedly continue to unfold. The more the Republicans cater to fringe elements in exchange for a loyal voting bloc, and the more those extreme views are amplified by Fox News across the nation to an undereducated public, the worse things will get. Florida man and Republica...

It’s the guns. Another day has passed and another deadly school shooting in America has destroyed families and communities – this time in Nashville, Tennessee. The NRA and GOP have violated the spirit of the law via revisionist history of the second amendment (2A). Instead of engaging in meaningful debate to address gun violence, Republicans have failed to acknowledge the need for common sense gun...

The beta version of Diablo 4 gameplay, a video game by Activision Blizzard Entertainment, doesn’t have micro transactions, or in-game purchases like loot boxes, and the magic of getting lost in video games has returned. Will Diablo 4 stay that way? Will everyone in England hear nature sounds? Well, the British government wants each citizen to be within a 15-minute walk to nature, whether it be a p...

The BBC chooses to censor Sir David Attenborough and his new nature documentary by not airing one of the episodes that addresses wildlife conservation. Elon Musk has begun buying up property outside of Austin, Texas to create a worker town. Minnesota wolves finally might catch a break, but you need to write congress and the governor to make sure this endangered species is protected and wolf huntin...

How will artificial intelligence (AI) impact human evolution, nature, and civilization? We asked OpenAI’s ChatGPT! Over the course of 7 conversations with ChatGPT we covered AI’s ability to vote for a human, whether Mars colonization will lead to dystopia under the rule of Elon Musk, can AGI enslave humans and how we can take the power back, what are some existential threats facing humans today, h...

In our final Black History Month episode, we explore the history and significance of the Battle of Adwa, a crucial moment in African history that saw Emperor Negus Menelik II of Ethiopia triumph over Italian colonialism and thwart the further spread of European imperialism. White Man's Grave 05:58 How Europe Stole Africa 07:52 Weapons of War 14:46 Millions of People Lost 18:47 Loss of Human Capita...

It’s Black History Month - when you think of wrestling does Africa come to mind? A San Antonio, Texas zoo finds success with its Valentine’s Day fundraising, but does it enable online bullying? Considering the recent spy balloon from China breaching the US defense system and numerous other objects shot down by the US military that were well within our borders, is the defense budget bloated and sho...

It’s Black History Month, and we review a map of Africa and compare it to the rest of the world. Questions arise as to why Africa is divided up the way that it is, and how it impacts the wealth of African nations and the continent as a whole.

Google Enters the AI Arms Race 2:30, Artificial Intelligence Watchdog 3:55, Regulating AI 7:03, Google’s MusicLM 10:20, GPT-3 and Mental Health 12:26, Koko’s Source Material 18:13, AI Matches Humans 26:44, Scientists Create Terminator 2 T-1000 31:35, Agent Smith of The Matrix 33:35. The Matrix, Agent Smith: “…as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization”. Artificial int...

Sony Playstation and DBrand 0:49, SpaceX, NASA and Space Science 9:10, The Doomsday clock 90 to Midnight 32:17. Sony Playstation and DBrand: DBrand manufactures decorative cases for gamers, and got their start with Sony Playstation. After a lawsuit, they moved onto other gaming consoles. Along the way, they made a mistake, and demonstrated exemplary accountability in the process. One happy custome...

Andrew Yang takes on backwards politics with the Forward Party in an attempt to steer the American political system away from democrats vs republicans vs independents. But, can Andrew Yang’s third party candidates operate in today’s local, state and federal government, or does the entire US political system need to change (05:08)? Does AI art follow a code of ethics? We revisit a previous story, b...

California deployed new gun control measures based on a Texas abortion law that turns every citizen into a bounty hunter. This was Governor Newsom’s reaction to the US Supreme Court refusing to take action. With so many bounty hunters springing up across the country it feels like our society will quickly spiral (02:26). A new wellness routine to achieve health and happiness might be surprising to...

Who is Elon Musk, what artificial intelligence capabilities has he assembled through companies like Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, Starlink, Twitter, The Boring Company, OpenAI, Hyperloop, Musk Foundation and XPRIZE, and what's Elon’s vision for life on Mars? To discover these answers, we explore the concept of an imperial monopoly to grasp the scope of AI power that Elon Musk is amassing. Join us to s...

Happy New Year to all our listeners! Celebrate with the best podcasts to listen to on YouTube, Google, Apple, Amazon and Spotify by looking back at the 14 best podcast polls we ran on Twitter in 2022! Best Podcast Polls: How long should a podcast be? (5:02) How do you listen to podcasts? (6:47) End daylight savings time (9:08) Worst democrat scandal (11:56) Twitter alternative (16:30) Paying for s...

Welcome to Christmas in the Netherlands. If you’re looking for things to do in Amsterdam, you might find your way to a Christmas market to witness the Zwarte Piet tradition. Like a German Krampus parade, Sinterklaas (Santa Claus) has a servant named Black Pete that has a controversial blackface depiction. He’s supposed to be a devil, but we’ll let you be the judge (3:04). Meanwhile in Finland, the...

She’s traversed the Pacific Crest Trail thru hike, hiking the Appalachian Trail is checked off her list, and now hiking the Continental Divide Trail marks her latest accomplishment. Maxine Presto honors us with her third appearance on the podcast to discuss her completion of the Triple Crown of hiking. After mastering each AT, CDT and PCT thru hike, Maxine shares her experiences and has some hikin...

France fights domestic violence by collecting heirloom guns and how that compares to gun violence in America (8:57); SFPD vote on use of killer robots and we discuss the expansion of police deadly force (19:02); yet another piece of dystopia being built near Neom, Saudi Arabia’s Trojena (31:33); and after learning how zebra stripes repel flies – what animal trait would you adopt with gene editing...

This week, Jaime and Antoine discuss Qatar hosting the FIFA World Cup amidst human rights violations (2:30); the World Congress Against the Death Penalty meets (32:30); and our human tree grows the list of primates – homo luzonensis, a newly unearthed extinct human species, makes us think how humans would treat other human species that exhibit human intelligence (42:21).

Happy Thanksgiving! This week we continue giving thanks to Native Americans and discuss Congress’ consideration to honor our treaty with Cherokee Nation by seating Kim Teehee as the delegate (0:55), we give thanks to Onesimus for sharing African indigenous knowledge of inoculation to battle smallpox (26:02), and Jeff Bezos starts Altos Lab to give us immortality (39:43). Reversing Course Through D...

This week we chat the Elon Musk Twitter debacle (3:39), an update on the NASA mission to stop an asteroid hitting Earth (24:45), some cool bits and bytes (26:01), someone greenlit the wolf slaughter (41:28), and Neil deGrasse Tyson psychoanalyzes we the people (47:35).